Blue Coat School, Birmingham

[Vivienne14]

The figures were from the early Blue Coat school in St Phillips churchyard were relocated inside the Blue Coat School in Harborne and new replica figures were made by William Bloye for outside the Harborne school building. Perhaps the Harborne BC School still has the original figures.


Source : British Newspaper Archive

 

[superdad3]

Interesting history.

Founded to afford orphans, and the children of the poor, clothing, maintenance, a good elementary education, and religious instruction according to the principles of the Church of England. Now a fee paying school at £4000+ per term!

Gentle reminder. The school is in Edgbaston not Harborne. The boundary between them runs along Somerset Road/Nursery Road.

 

[Stokkie]

Interesting history.

Founded to afford orphans, and the children of the poor, clothing, maintenance, a good elementary education, and religious instruction according to the principles of the Church of England. Now a fee paying school at £4000+ per term!

Gentle reminder. The school is in Edgbaston not Harborne. The boundary between them runs along Somerset Road/Nursery Road.

Harborne seems to have been the traditional address. I think Somerset Road is on the border between Edgbaston and Harborne. As a 'poor scholar' I benefitted from a charity living in 'the ancient parish of Harborne' which extended to Smethwick and other places. I lived in Bearwood. Tip o'the hat to the late Bill Dargue. https://billdargue.jimdofree.com/placenames-gazetteer-a-to-y/places-h/harborne/
But you are right to point to the way in which charity schools have become fee paying and do not benefit those who were originally intended to benefit. (I expect there are a few competitive scholarships, most of what we used to call public schools have a very few.) We seem to be increasingly calling these private schools after American usage.

 

[superdad3]

Harborne seems to have been the traditional address. I think Somerset Road is on the border between Edgbaston and Harborne. As a 'poor scholar' I benefitted from a charity living in 'the ancient parish of Harborne' which extended to Smethwick and other places. I lived in Bearwood. Tip o'the hat to the late Bill Dargue. https://billdargue.jimdofree.com/placenames-gazetteer-a-to-y/places-h/harborne/
But you are right to point to the way in which charity schools have become fee paying and do not benefit those who were originally intended to benefit. (I expect there are a few competitive scholarships, most of what we used to call public schools have a very few.) We seem to be increasingly calling these private schools after American usage.

Yes, you are right, the school is often described as in Harborne but the address quoted by the school is Somerset Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham but as you say right on the historic boundary between Warwickshire [Edgbaston] and Staffordshire [Harborne] which ran down Nursery Road and Metchley Lane [NOT Somerset Road as I mistakenly said above].

 

[mikejee]

Teachers from the Blue Coat school when it was in Colmore Row

 

[Donbogen]

That's a merry looking bunch imagine as a child waking up in the morning knowing you're gonna face that crew